Laura Ruth Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Ruth Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mothers United: An immigrant struggle for socially just education
The Role of Educational Institutions in the Development of Critical Literacy and Transformative Action
This article seeks to explore how community-based institutions can serve as contexts for the development of critical literacy frameworks among youth. Using examples from research conducted by the authors in a Puerto Rican community, we elaborate ways that schools can serve as counter-storytelling institutions that encourage students to critically examine society
Challenging "Best Practices" in Family Literacy and Parent Education Programs: The Development and Enactment of Mothering Knowledge among Puerto Rican and Latina Mothers in Chicago
This article discusses the findings of an ethnographic research study exploring the experiences of Puerto Rican women attending a family literacy program in Chicago. In particular, the study investigated the repositories of knowledge and information available to participating women that figured into the development of their notions about parenting, in the process posing these various trajectories against the types of knowledge and approaches usua…
Exploring the Future: "If I Had My Way": A Symposium
The Role of Educational Institutions in the Development of Critical Literacy and Transformative Action
This article seeks to explore how community-based institutions can serve as contexts for the development of critical literacy frameworks among youth. Using examples from research conducted by the authors in a Puerto Rican community, we elaborate ways that schools can serve as counter-storytelling institutions that encourage students to critically examine society
Challenging "Best Practices" in Family Literacy and Parent Education Programs: The Development and Enactment of Mothering Knowledge among Puerto Rican and Latina Mothers in Chicago
This article discusses the findings of an ethnographic research study exploring the experiences of Puerto Rican women attending a family literacy program in Chicago. In particular, the study investigated the repositories of knowledge and information available to participating women that figured into the development of their notions about parenting, in the process posing these various trajectories against the types of knowledge and approaches usua…
Exploring the Future: "If I Had My Way": A Symposium
Challenging "Best Practices" in Family Literacy and Parent Education Programs: The Development and Enactment of Mothering Knowledge among Puerto Rican and Latina Mothers in Chicago
This article discusses the findings of an ethnographic research study exploring the experiences of Puerto Rican women attending a family literacy program in Chicago. In particular, the study investigated the repositories of knowledge and information available to participating women that figured into the development of their notions about parenting, in the process posing these various trajectories against the types of knowledge and approaches usua…
The Role of Educational Institutions in the Development of Critical Literacy and Transformative Action
This article seeks to explore how community-based institutions can serve as contexts for the development of critical literacy frameworks among youth. Using examples from research conducted by the authors in a Puerto Rican community, we elaborate ways that schools can serve as counter-storytelling institutions that encourage students to critically examine society
Mothers United: An immigrant struggle for socially just education
Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Education Systems and Policy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Literacy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Acculturation (1 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Action research (1 works)